Politics / Meghalaya

SHILLONG, March 14?The ruling Meghalaya People?s Forum (PFM) today exposed cracks in the coalition Government with all the three major constituents-NCP, Congress and Meghalaya United Democratic Party (MUDP) propping up candidates for the lone Rajya Sabha seat from the State. Sitting Rajya Sabha member O L Nongtdu (Congress), Robert Kharshiing (NCP) and S S Lyngdoh (MUDP) were the three candidates who filed their nominations on the last day today for filing of papers. SD Khongwir of Opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) also filed his nomination today. Denying any rift in the coalition...

TURA, March 7 ? The Council of Nokmas, from East, West and South Garo Hills, have urged the Meghalaya Community and Rural Development (C&RD) Minister to look into the appointment of Block Selection Committee members as there has been ?discrimination? towards the selection of Nokmas. The Governor of Meghalaya had assured the inclusion of twelve members from among the heads of traditional institutions of Meghalaya, such as the Nokmas, Syiems, Dolois etc, as members of the Block Selection Committee. But the Nokmas allege that the authorities concerned failed to properly implement the same. The...

SHILLONG, March 7 ? Banks, financial institutions and attendance in Government offices continued to be affected Thursday in the East and West Khasi Hills and Ri-bhoi districts of Meghalaya in view of the two-day picketing by Khasi Students Union (KSU) to press their demands, official sources said. They said that banks, post offices, treasury offices and telecom department remained closed. Attendance in the State Secretariat, Deputy Commissioner?s Office was negligible despite the State Government issuing ?No work, no pay? warning, the sources said. Chief Secretary J Tayeng said non-attendance...

SHILLONG, March 6 ? Banks remained closed and attendance in government offices was affected in East, West and Ri-Bhoi districts of Meghalaya on the first day of the two-day picketing by Khasi Students Union to press their demands, official sources said. Police and CRPF have been posted in from of all the offices and no untoward incident was reported till noon from any where, the sources said. Though no picketers were sighted, all banks, post offices and treasury office, besides the telecom department remained closed. The attendance at the secretariat, Deputy Commissioner?s office and Meghalaya...

SHILLONG, March 5? The Meghalaya Government has tightened security measures in the State in view of the call for picketing of all State and Central government offices and financial institutions by the Khasi Students? Union (KSU) on March 6-7. Expressing great concern over the KSU move, the government said such activities will pose a threat to maintenance of law and order and a disturbance to public peace and tranquility at a time when HSLC and ICSC examinations are going on. Viewing such activities as ?highly uncalled for?, an official press note said ?Since the KSU is now a political party...

TURA, March 3 ? The Congress(I) has given a veiled threat of withdrawal from the present FA Khonglam government in Meghalaya following demands from its partymen. This threat was given at the first annual youth conference of the party at Tura district auditorium on Saturday where Congress heavyweights lashed out at the NCP and other parties for creating instability in the State. The Meghalaya Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) president and former Chief Minister, Salseng C Marak, said that the only reason the Congress was continuing in the government was because there was no alternative. With...

SHILLONG, Jan 23 — The 30th anniversary of the creation of Meghalaya as a full-fledged State on January 21 was held with fanfare. Meghalaya came into being on January 21, 1972. The then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, came herself to inaugurate the new State at a mammoth gathering, at the Polo ground, Shillong, states a release. Incidentally, the date also coincides with the raising day of the First Meghalaya battalion. This took effect with the conversion of the 7th Assam Police battalion into the 1st Meghalaya Police Batallion at Mawiong, Shillong. With the epassage of time, the small police...

SHILLONG, Jan 4 — Meghalaya government has appointed additional chief secretary J Tayeng as the chief secretary after the recent transfer of the erstwhile incumbent JP Singh, who was a part in the MoU for the controversial Meghalaya House deal in Kolkata, official sources said Friday, reports PTI. The Meghalaya House deal had brought down the EK Mawlong government in his State in the first week of December. Singh has now been appointed as the chairman, Board of Revenue and Administrative Reforms, a post earlier held by Tayeng. He will continue to hold posts as chairman, Meghalaya Transport...

TURA, April 30: A high alert has ben sounded in the entire border along Garo Hills to pick up any suspected Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) "agents" in the vicinity of the border. The public has also been alerted and they are extending full cooperating to the Border Security Force (BSF) in this regard. The alert has been sounded following reports that Bangladesh has been making attempts to send Bangladeshis to the Garo Hills for ascertaining the strength and movement of BSF forces here. On Friday afternoon, shortly after 1 pm locals in Rongra market of South Garo Hills, noticed a new face in the crowd...

GUWAHATI, April 24: The two injured BSF jawans who were returned to India by the Bangladesh Rifles on Sunday night, were undergoing medical treatment and were not yet questioned on the methods of torture leading to their injury and killing of 16 of their colleagues by BDR on Wednesday last, according to R C Silkoti, commandant, BSF headquarters, Shillong, reports PTI. The two injured jawans Akshay Kumar and Bimal Kumar, admitted at the Battalion Hospital in Meghalaya's Tura, "were now under medical care and their questioning had not yet started as they were now being made to feel comfortable,"...